Avoidance on Monday's

This weekend was fairly pleasant, only a few normal teen things. Mothers day was good. My son got me a really cute card, that told me that I give wonderful advice, and when you open the card it says " and sometime mom I will use it".

I wish that the sometime was now. Every time he has a consequence to face, he shuts down and avoids the situation. Sometimes he will even shut down when he is excited about doing something, but he gets so worked up that he has syced himself out. I was watching a show last night about two bothers with autism, in the show they portrayed them haveing a mild case, but none the less showed the trials and triumphs they went through. When they were showing the boys scared and upset and how they would shut down when they were freighting, it made me realize, that my son does that for many things and I have to find a motivator. But first I have to have him go back to square one with the deep breathing and the anxiety list of to do's when he has a hard time calming down. Now the list is actually called the honey dew list, but it was we used for storms or tornadoes because he is very fearful of stormy weather. He did wonderful yesterday and since we repeated all the steps and he felt really good this time around.

I am excited about my new family advocate, she has years of experience as a therapist and has worked in group homes. It was amazing how much simarlarites there were with our children. So I am thinking this will be very cool. Now If I can only get my son to serve his detentions without having to sit with him at the school. But that is another battle for a different day. For now I am going to take the advice of taking one moment at a time, it is so much easier.

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